Re: accessing data from tape on fresh amanda system (disaster recover)
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 08:34:41AM -0600, Steven J. Backus wrote: > > Selon Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes; > > > > > It helps greatly if there is a TOC of each tape available. > > > > Is there a slick way to create these rather than just print out the > > nightly email? > > I just set "lbl-templ" in my tapetype definition. In my case I > use the "3hole.ps" template provided with the distribution and > it prints out on my default printer. There's also amtoc. You can run it at the end of each amdump run. I like to then print its output to paper and save in a folder.
disk offline error
I am using Red Hat Linux on Power PC. I wanted to BACKUP my SYSTEM IMAGE with AMANDA (version 2.4.2p2) and got following error message wonder why! FAIL planner my_host_name hdk1 0 [disk hdk1 offline on my_local_host?] Any hints/tips or related information is appreciated! Thanks! _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
Re: taper algo change
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:26:17AM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote: Yeah, I would love it if amanda waited until the largest dump that would fit on the tape completed before writing anything to the tape. This would result in a longer dump process, but I wouldn't mind because tape time is small compared to dump time for my setup. I assume you do not regularly have dumps that do not fit. Otherwise something should change in your setup. If that is the case, why not use taper algo "largest"? I have dumps fairly regularly that don't fit. See my previous posts about problems with size estimates for details. I suppose I could increase my tapecycle but I'm cheap. taper algo "largest" is even worse than largestfit. Remember, the algorithm only takes into account dumps that are in the holding area at the time sendaflush() is called, namely when a taper becomes idle (I think), not all of the dumps as a whole (which is what I want).
new user setting up amanda, advice on tape setup/usage
I'm setting up Amanda here, and would like someone with a bit more experience than me to look over this and say if it looks decent. I'll have someone (me :) ) onsite 4 days out of every 8 to change tapes (i.e. days 1-4 tape changes can happen, days 5-8 tape changes will not happen), which is not ideal, but that's how it's going to work out. I'm thinking that I can run backups to tape the 4 days when changes happen, and let backups build up in the holding disks on days when tapes do not get changed? The plan right now is for an 8 tape set, what determines the best dumpcycle to use? (By the way, an autoloader is out of the question for now.. eventually, this will likely be the best solution though.. someone needs to invent an autoloader that'll fit in a 1U box ;) ) Any comments appreciated :) -- Sarah
Re: Not again !!!
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 11:06, Kevin Passey wrote: >Is there anyway of filtering out attachments on this list? > >Theses bloody viruses are becoming a pain.. > >Regards > >Kevin Remember Kevin, its only the winderz people it bothers. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
Re: dump cycle
On Monday 11 August 2003 07:37, Marcelo Block Teixeira wrote: >Can I put many entry in the disklist? >How it is control by amanda? >How amanda know what entry is the first or next to back up? >for example: >If I have one dirs to back up: >/home (18GB) >and my tape is 4GB. >Shall I broken it in individual subdirs? Yes, into small enough pieces that any one of them might not be more than half a tape of less. This gives amanda the wiggle room it needs to do the scheduleing more efficiently. Also, when composing yours, do it in 1 day stages, adding just enough per day to cause that days tape to be pretty well filled. Again, this gives amanda a head start on getting a 'balanced' schedule worked out. You'll note that I use a compressing dumptype for some, and a non-comptressing dumptype for others. This was originaly defined by compressing everything, then looking at the email amanda sends you, those DLE's that report little of no compression were then switched to a no compression dumptype. Basicly, you cannot compress a .bz2 or .gz file, and it will probably expand if you try. So directories full of those can be skipped. >How will be my disklist? As a sample, because my /usr's are relatively huge, 40 some Gb's, here is my disklist, stripped of the comments: coyote /amanda comp-root-tar 1 local coyote /bin root-tar1 local coyote /bootroot-tar1 local coyote /dev root-tar1 local coyote /doscomp-root-tar 1 local coyote /etccomp-root-tar 1 local coyote /home comp-root-tar 2 local coyote /libcomp-root-tar 1 local coyote /misc/deb1 root-tar1 local coyote /misc/deb2 root-tar1 local coyote /misc/deb3 root-tar1 local coyote /misc/deb4 root-tar1 local coyote /misc/deb5 root-tar1 local coyote /misc/deb6 root-tar1 local coyote /misc/deb7 root-tar1 local coyote /misc/deb8 root-tar1 local coyote /optcomp-root-tar 2 local coyote /rh8.0disks/disk1 root-tar1 local coyote /rh8.0disks/disk2 root-tar1 local coyote /rh8.0disks/disk3 root-tar1 local coyote /root comp-root-tar 2 local coyote /sbin root-tar1 local coyote /tmpcomp-root-tar 1 local coyote /varcomp-root-tar 1 local coyote /usr/binroot-tar2 local coyote /usr/dlds root-tar2 local coyote /usr/games root-tar2 local gene/binroot-tar3 le0 gene/boot root-tar3 le0 gene/home comp-root-tar 3 le0 gene/root comp-root-tar 3 le0 gene/etccomp-root-tar 3 le0 gene/usr/srccomp-root-tar 3 le0 gene/usr/local comp-root-tar 3 le0 gene/usr/binroot-tar3 le0 gene/usr/sbin root-tar3 le0 coyote /usr/i386-glibc21-linux root-tar2 local coyote /usr/includecomp-root-tar 2 local coyote /usr/kerberos root-tar2 local coyote /usr/libcomp-root-tar 2 local coyote /usr/libexeccomp-root-tar 2 local # the amanda directories below will be missed, due to file locks? Don't know... coyote /usr/local comp-root-tar 2 local coyote /usr/manroot-tar2 local coyote /usr/music root-tar2 local coyote /usr/pixroot-tar2 local coyote /usr/sbin root-tar2 local coyote /usr/share comp-root-tar 2 local coyote /usr/srccomp-root-tar 2 local coyote /usr/X11R6 comp-root-tar 2 local - see your srcdir/example/disklist for field explanations. >- Original Message - From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Marcelo Block Teixeira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 5:55 PM >Subject: Re: dump cycle > >On Friday 08 August 2003 16:05, Marcelo Block Teixeira wrote: >>I'd like understand this "dump cycle". >>If I setup one area bigger than tape space. What wil happen? > >'dumpcycle' is the number of days (or weeks) in elapsed time that >amanda has to achieve a level 0 backup of every entry in the >disklist. >'runspercycle' is how many times amanda will be run in dumpcycle > days. For businesses that have no one to change tapes over the > weekends, these are often set to 7 and 5 respectively. > >If one area, more specifically, one entry in the disklist is larger >than a tape, it will fail. amanda cannot span a single disklist >entry (DLE) across more than 1 tape. > >The
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Can't backup AIX4.3 client : missing results
Hi, After having set up many differents clients (linux, openbsd, windows, freebsd), I'm trying to set up an AIX 4.3 box. In my disklist, I put that line : estrella /dev/hd3 always-full But amdump sends me that in a mail : estrella /dev/hd3 lev 0 FAILED [missing result for /dev/hd3 in estrella response] I've looked into the client /tmp/amanda/*.log and there seem to be nothing anormal in the log files but there is a core file (is it a core dump ? Is there an error ?) On the server, the amdump.1 log file just tell that : SETTING UP FOR ESTIMATES... planner: time 0.020: setting up estimates for estrella:/dev/hd3 estrella:/dev/hd3 overdue 12273 days for level 0 setup_estimate: estrella:/dev/hd3: command 0, options: last_level -1 next_level0 -12273 level_days 0 getting estimates 0 (0) -1 (-1) -1 (-1) planner: time 0.021: setting up estimates took 0.001 secs GETTING ESTIMATES... driver: pid 3644 executable /usr/local/libexec/amanda/driver version 2.4.4 driver: send-cmd time 0.021 to taper: START-TAPER 20030809 driver: started dumper0 pid 3646 driver: started dumper1 pid 3647 driver: started dumper2 pid 3648 driver: started dumper3 pid 3649 taper: pid 3645 executable taper version 2.4.4 taper: page size is 4096 taper: buffer size is 32768 dumper: dgram_bind: socket bound to 0.0.0.0.794 dumper: pid 3648 executable dumper2 version 2.4.4, using port 794 dumper: dgram_bind: socket bound to 0.0.0.0.793 dumper: pid 3647 executable dumper1 version 2.4.4, using port 793 taper: buffer[00] at 0x30048000 taper: buffer[01] at 0x3005 taper: buffer[02] at 0x30058000 taper: buffer[03] at 0x3006 taper: buffer[04] at 0x30068000 taper: buffer[05] at 0x3007 taper: buffer[06] at 0x30078000 taper: buffer[07] at 0x3008 taper: buffer[08] at 0x30088000 taper: buffer[09] at 0x3009 taper: buffer[10] at 0x30098000 taper: buffer[11] at 0x300a taper: buffer[12] at 0x300a8000 taper: buffer[13] at 0x300b taper: buffer[14] at 0x300b8000 taper: buffer[15] at 0x300c taper: buffer[16] at 0x300c8000 taper: buffer[17] at 0x300d taper: buffer[18] at 0x300d8000 taper: buffer[19] at 0x300e taper: buffer structures at 0x300e8000 for 240 bytes dumper: dgram_bind: socket bound to 0.0.0.0.792 dumper: pid 3646 executable dumper0 version 2.4.4, using port 792 dumper: dgram_bind: socket bound to 0.0.0.0.795 dumper: pid 3649 executable dumper3 version 2.4.4, using port 795 error result for host estrella disk /dev/hd3: missing estimate planner: time 1.495: getting estimates took 1.473 secs FAILED QUEUE: 0: estrella /dev/hd3 DONE QUEUE: empty I don't really know in what other log file to look in, and don't really know where does this problem comes from ? Any idea ? -- Nicolas Ecarnot
MAIL FROM FATIMA IYESA ISMIANA
From: Mrs. Fatima Iyesa Ismiana My dearest in Christ, May God be praised!!! I am Mrs. Fatima Iyesa Ismiana, from Kuwait. I am married to Usman Ismiana of blessed memory who worked with Kuwait embassy in Madrid Spain for nine years before he died in the year 2000. We were married for eleven years without a child he died after a brief illness that lasted only four days. Before his death he was a very devoted Muslim and I was a devoted Christian by birth battling with both cancer and fibroid problems when my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of $25million dollars (twenty five million dollars) with an overseas finance and security firm. Presently, this money is still with finance and security firm. Recently, my doctor told me that I had a terminating illness (cancer) that would last for the next four months. Though what disturbs me most is my stroke sickness, having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to either a Christian organization or a devoted Christian individual that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct here in. I want this Christian organization or individual to use this money in all sincerity to fund churches, orphanages, widows and also propagating the word of God and to ensure that the society upholds the views and beliefs of the holy bible. The holy bible emphasized so much on the giving of alms, charity and this has encouraged me in taking this bold step. I took this decision because I dont have any child to start from and were I will stop and my husbands relatives are all Muslims and I dont want my husband hard earned money to be misused by people that call me an unbeliever. I dont want a situation where this money will be used in an unholy manner hence the reason for taking this bold decision. I know that after death I will be with God the most high and the most merciful. I dont need any telephone communications but will only give you the contact of my lawyer Barr. Joseph Cole because he is the one who is going to assisting you in making the beneficiary of the consignment in the finance and security firm if you receive this letter please call my lawyer with telephone number +873-763-430-525 or fax number +873-763-430-526, if you want to speak with me he will arrange for that because my doctor warned me to stop talking on the telephone secondly I cant discuss in the presence of my husbands relatives for the always stay with me in the hospital my lawyer is the only person that knows the decision that I am taking. With God, I know that all thing are possible and as soon as I receive your reply through my lawyer I will now give him instruction to make you the beneficiary of the consignment and all necessary steps to take before receiving these funds and I shall also give you the contact of the finance and security firm I will also issue you a letter of authority that will prove you as the original beneficiary of the funds, I want you and the Christian community where you reside to always pray for me. My happiness is that I lived a life of a true devoted Christian though married to a Muslim whoever that wants to serve God must serve him in truth and in spirit, please always be prayerful all through your life. Any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing for another Christian organization or a devoted Christian for the same purpose. Until I hear from you my dreams will rest squarely on your shoulders, may the Almighty God continue to guide and protect you. Amen. Yours faithfully, Mrs. Fatima Iyesa Ismiana
Re: Configuration Guide.
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:43:02AM +0300, rehanann wrote: > Dear All, > I need configuration document for Amanda 2.4.4 p1 if its > available please forward me and I am installing this in Red Hat 8.0. > > "Without any sense you cannot make any sensible things for > example if you have ingredients and you don't know recipe you can never > succeed" Have you read all the files in /usr/share/doc/amanda-server*/ Have you read the manual pages for the various Amanda commands? Have you googled for appropriate HOWTOs? Have you read the Amanda web site? Have you read the chapter on Amanda in "Unix Backup and Recovery" by W. Curtis Preston? Aside from all that, there really isn't any Amanda configuration documentation. If you want to change that, well, you can write some. Once it's done, you can post it here so it can be included in future versions of Amanda. As they say on another mailing list: "Patches Thoughtfully Considered". -- JF
Amanda (or gtar) ignoring exclude file list
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Hello amanda-users,
I have an interesting problem. I use gtar for my backups with Amanda. I
have an exclude file specified, and I know it is on all my systems
because if the file is missing then Amanda complains.
However, gtar seems to ignore the exclude list. For example, I have the
following in one of the files on one system:
./opt
./tmp
./dev
./var/lib/amanda
./var/log
./var/spool
./log
./spool
Yet I get the following errors/warnings on my Amanda report:
? gtar: ./log/messages: file changed as we read it
? gtar: ./log/postgresql: file changed as we read it
and this is the relevent line from the disklist file:
p1.questionmarket.com /varcomp-high
Here is the definition of comp-high:
define dumptype global {
comment "Global definitions"
index yes
program "GNUTAR"
}
define dumptype comp-high {
global
comment "very important partitions on fast machines"
compress server best
priority high
}
I'm running Amanda 2.4.4p1 on all systems. Both of these systems are
Redhat Linux release 9
Thanks in advance
JBB
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